Birst Inc. is a software provider of business intelligence

Business intelligence

Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....

 (BI) solutions headquartered in San Francisco

Analytics

Analytics is the application of computer technology, operational research, and statistics to solve problems in business and industry. Analytics is carried out within an information system: while, in the past, statistics and mathematics could be studied without computers and software, analytics has...

, California. Birst originally delivered its solution exclusively via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model but with Birst 5, the company additionally delivered its suite via a software virtual appliance.

Executives

Brad Peters - CEO

Paul Staelin - Vice President of Customer Success

Ryan Ried - Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Rick Spickelmier - CTO/VP Engineering

Wynn White - Vice President of Worldwide Marketing

Products

Birst delivers a business analytics suite available in the Cloud or on premise, behind the corporate firewall. Birst offers a single solution Birst 5 which includes business intelligence and analytics components such as data warehousing, ETL

Extract, transform, load

Extract, transform and load is a process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that involves:* Extracting data from outside sources* Transforming it to fit operational needs...

tools, pixel-perfect and ad hoc reports, dashboards and analytics.